Explaining Bizarre Helium 4, a Likely Supersolid

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 04:49 in Physics & Chemistry

Suggesting that atoms can transport through a solid seems impossible, like trying to inject stuff into a billiard ball with a syringe. It shouldn't work, but such "superflow" may be possible in super-solid helium, as theoretical physicist Boris Svistunov and colleagues propose in a new paper.

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